CodeIgniter PDO database driver not working

Question

I\'m trying to use the PDO MySQL driver in my CodeIgniter application. This is my database config:

$active_group = \'default\';
$active_record = TRUE;

$db[\         


        

Answer 1

This should not be the case.

localhost;dbname=testdatabase

should be

mysql:dbname=testdatabase;host=localhost;